 | Artist: Bob Gent Glassworks
After earning my BFA in Graphic Design and spending many years working for other artists, I designed and built my own studio. This studio is a small shop with the capacity to melt one hundred pounds of crystal at a time and working capability for a twelve by twenty-four inch piece, though most work is on a smaller scale.
My style employs tightly controlled, bright colors, simple shapes and a playful design sense. Much of my work is enhanced by the decorations which start out as long rods of color (or canes) that I make from imported glass.
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 | Artist: Caitlin Burch Glassworks
Caitlin Burch grew up with glass. An award winning, second generation glassblower, she spent time in the studio with her mother and father from infancy. “My mother would work with me in a pack on her back, and my father would let me help him on the bench; starting when I was three or four”.
Now with two lines of work, handblown glass and lampwork jewelry, Burch is practicing both crafts. “The fact that I work in two related fields, [offhand blown glass and lampworking] has allowed me the unique and challenging opportunity to incorporate individual techniques and skills of each into the other.”
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 | Artist: Contemporary Glass Works
Contemporary Glassworks presents stained glass artwork that will delight the eye. There are pieces available for windows, table tops, and outdoors. All the designs are contemporary, unique, and made with the wish that they will produce delight and enjoyment in homes, offices, gardens or wherever they are displayed. The freeform shapes and use of shells, agates and other inclusions combine to produce a light and airy effect. The pieces shown on this site are currently available.
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 | Artist: Flying Frog Glassworks
Nestled amongst the hills of the north Quabbin Region in Massachusetts in a barn attached to a pre Revolutionary War home I craft, through the ancient art of lampworking, many and varied art objects.
Through careful manipulation, solid glass rods and hollow borosilicate tubing are turned molten with the aid of an oxygen/propane driven torch. With this molten material and inspiration derived primarily from single celled creatures found in both the plant and animal kingdoms, my beads, jewelry, ornaments, and small sculptures are made.
My choosing to use predominately borosilicate glass, which has a complex coloration due to the oxides within each rod mixing with the oxygen/propane ratio, lends a mystical quality to my work. A soft palette which blends and melds to harmonize and surprise both myself and the viewer is what excites me and keeps my work fresh.
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